SushiSake3's past comments

I challenge anyone to provide evidence that NK has detonated any< nuclear devices.

Radiation traces, etc.

I don't believe NK has ever set off a nuclear device.
This latest 'nuclear test' was the latest in a run of falsehoods, IMO.

It was declared a nuclear test the day it occurred.
Funny thing is, US and Japan sent up radiation 'sniffer' aircraft that can detect airborne radiation, and their results were due out nearly a week after the actual test.
The results have not been widely publicized.

Has anyone seen anything about actual radiation in the air?

China and South Korean authorities both said they did not detect any abnormal levels of radiation above their countries.

I've been down there every summer for 13 years.
LOVE the place.
Beach, then head to the island for an ice cream and lazy walk to the restaurant at the top of the stairs leading down to the caves at the far end of the island.
The outside deck of that restaurant is arguably the best place to drink beer in the country. Amazing views out over the ocean. <

That was a good solid performance from both teams.
Handling errors were minimal, defense - especially the Scots - was superb, and in one play there were 15 phases.
The Scots got a couple of lucky breaks, especially the try from a turnover, but the Japanese showed again they are really getting their game up there.

Loved the try saving tackle from Goromaru on Tommy Seymour just before the break - that was awesome - like being hit by a car - BOOM!

"Republican pollster Frank Luntz said Trump could siphon off enough votes as a third-party candidate to cost the party the White House.

“If you tell me Trump is running as an independent, I will tell you that the next president will be Hillary Clinton,” said Luntz,"

That's amazing.

A lunatic fringe extremist like Trump pulling off such a significant number of conservative voters that the entire party goes down?

If that's even remotely possible it goes to show how many nutjob conservative voters there are out there in the heartlands.
But we already knew that.

This looks like the beginning of the end of the GOP even before the debates start.

Trump will have enough support to get into the 10 candidates permitted on stage for the GOP debates.
He'll shred the other 9 who will be too petrified to attack him if he is actually nominated and wants a Veep.
While he's doing that, he'll out-extreme all of them, his support base will swell proportionately, and all the other candidates will be pulled even further to the extremist fringe right - if that's even possible.

Cruz - who let's remember is the ultra extremist who led the charge that actually shut down the government - will be left looking like a moderate, while most of the rest - including Jeb - will look like Liberals in Trump's shadow.

As I've said many times before: conservatives NEVER learn. They are making exactly the same mistake they made in 2008 and 2012: putting up largely un/under-educated extremist candidates in a debate schedule that sees them tear themselves - and their party's hopes - to pieces.

The key to their ongoing record of election year failure is education, or rather lack if it.

Interesting timing in Japanese politics at the moment.
The Diet/parliament has been pushing through highly contentious security bills that will broaden the activities Japanese forces will be able to engage in.
That didn't go down too well - 2 nights of protests outside the Diet building, PM Abe getting hammered from all quarters, then, suddenly Abe announces a complete re-think of plans for the huge white elephant Olympic stadium (forecastle to be the most expensive sports stadium ever built).

Don't look there (at the security bills), look over here instead!

Probably a smart political move but reality is Abe is getting hammered for both

"Japan is a rich country, but it doesn’t have cash to spare. More than two decades of economic stagnation have left the government saddled with debt, and the rapidly aging nation faces soaring pension and health care bills."

Heh? Japan's a "rich country" that is "saddled with debt."
Yup, that makes sense.
Japan is the most heavily bankrupt nation on the planet.
Hardly "rich."

Conservatives, the conservatives think they have no choice but to slam this deal because Obama's behind it.
Fox News, Rush Limbough and the GOP Talking Points tell conservatives they must spread the same lies and misinformation .....because Obama's behind it.

The programming is too strong....thinking is banned....exercising intellectual rigor is anti-American on issues like this for all conservatives..... because Obama's behind it - which he's not since as some posters have already stated this is multi-nation pact so the conservatives screwed up yet again and proved yet again they're not fit to run a lemonade stand let alone the US government.

None of this (what some people are calling) "economic blackmail" would be happening if respective Greek governments had better managed the country's finances.

I doubt there's a single EU nation that wants< to bail Greece out again.
I'm not sure whether other EU nations are obliged to provide financial assistance to other member couriers, but that's largely beside the point now.
This financial crisis isn't any other EU nation's specific problem, but collectively it's all of their problem.

The other countries are creditors and want their money back - and have every right to do so.
I think a key point is they now all acknowledge they aren't< going to get their money back; which means this next bailout will be more of a gift than a loan - given by governments that don't really want to give, don't have to give, but will anyway.

Based on that, I think the other EU nations that are participating in this bailout deserve a whole lot more credit than they are receiving, as - at least to me - they want to preserve the unity they created the EU for in the first place.

I think the high construction costs will fade from the spotlight when athletes start dying.
The Olympics will be held between July 24 - Aug 9.
That's around when the temperature hits 36-38 deg C.

This is an insane time to hold a major sporting event. Just think athletes coming in from colder countries who are not prepared to compete outside in temperatures that will be borderline 40 degs if not hotter.
And the people who placed the bid for Tokyo mist have known this.
The outdoor events won't be a display of peak performance, more like survival skills.

Absolutely amazing to see how (relatively) quickly attitudes have changed in just the last decade - especially in the US - wrt this issue, which shouldn't even be an issue IMO.

Looking back, first slavery got the boot.
Then opposition to mixed race marriages (illegal in America until circa 1965?).
Now opposition to gay marriage.

We are on a roll!

Key point I came to realize about gay marriage is that it's way more than just a gay rights issue - it's a human/civil rights issue, which - to me - puts the drive to legalise GM right up there with the civil rights movement in the US in the 60s, only in a different area.